lorises

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n. Plural form of loris.

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While their close relatives - such as lorises and galagos - range across Africa and Asia, lemurs only exist on the island of Madagascar, a place where environmental destruction has put nearly all living lemur species at risk of extinction.

A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible “missing link” between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago.

They also note that the article on Darwinius published last year in the journal PLoS ONE ignores two decades of published research showing that similar fossils are actually strepsirrhines, the primate group that includes lemurs and lorises.

Dealers here know they have to be careful because there's an international treaty called CITES that is supposed to protect endangered species, like these two small primates called slow lorises we discovered just left of the sign in the front window.